Yes, you get a rare second entry from me.<\/p>\n
Last night the musical The Phantom of the Opera<\/i> surpassed Cats<\/i> as the longest running musical in Broadway history. [Remember that the Fantasticks was off-(off-)Broadway.] Both are by Andrew Lloyd Webber but I think Phantom is the better of the two. For one thing Phantom has a plot. But that maybe just me.<\/p>\n
I saw Phantom during previews in New York when I was at the Yale School of Drama. I knew about it when I went up there because of Jeff & Angelo who had heard about it from a friend who saw it in London. I have seen it 5 times. 3 times from the audience’s point of view and twice from the stage manager’s point of view when I was observing through a program that the SMA(Stage Management Association) was sponsoring. It took me till my third audience viewing to see past the mechanics of the show and enjoy the show as a show. Stage-managing was and is so much a part of me that I tend to look a lot at the technical aspects when watching a show. Sort of like I mentally edit any book I read now.<\/p>\n
I really enjoy this musical. I like the music and Michael Crawford was amazing as the Phantom. He passed on the movie for a number of reasons including that he knew he couldn’t get his voice to do what it did almost 20 years ago. I wore out 3 cassette tapes of the musical in my time. It was one of the first things I ever bought on CD. It still can work its magic when I hear the organ chords leading into the transformation of the theater. Now I am jones to see it again. I guess it will be around for a while since it is still doing well at the box office.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to the cast and crew past and present of Phantom of the Opera<\/i>! May your chandeliers fall on cue for many years to come.<\/p>\n
I am grateful that I saw it way back when.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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